Poster supporting device



Feb. 23, 1932. V J. w. DI XON I 1,846,798

POSTER SUPPORTING DEVICE Filed Dec. '28. 1928 Patented Feb. 23, 1932 I JOHN w. nIxoN, or MAYW" 001), rumors i ros'rnn surnamemm Application filed December 28, '1'=;'28J- aa1'meats.

The present invention has to do with flexible posters, and is concerned particularly with the means employed for supporting such posters in outspread position.

5 The principal object of the invention is to provide a novel poster support which is inexpensive to manufacture, is easy to'assemble', can be taken apart readily, is light in weight, ocoupies'but little space when takenapart,

and will maintain the poster with which associatedtautly outspread in an upright position.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be evident to those skilled in the art upon a full understanding of the construc tion, arrangement and manner of use of. the

im roved support.

ne form of the invention is presentedherein for the purpose of exemplification', but it will of course be appreciated thatthe invention is susceptible of embodiment in other structurally modified forms coming within the scope of the appended claims.

In'the accompanying drawings: Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a poster with the supporting device of the invention operatively associated therewith;

Fig. 2 is a side View;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view, showing the poster rolled up for shipment and the supporting device taken apart for inclusion with the poster in a mailing tube; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view, showing certain portions of the support in detail.

The supporting device, which is adapted to be applied to a poster made up of a flexible sheet 10 and upper and lower edge strips 11 and 12, includes primarily two axially aligned rods 13 and 14. The rod 13 has its lower end reduced for insertion in a hole in the lower edge strip, while the rod 14 has its serves to stretch the poster taut.

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tween adjacentends of the rods 13 and i 14, with the resultthat the poster is maintained by the action of the spring in a taut-l 1y outspread position. The poster is pre Vented from falling over backward by a hori- '55 zontally extending rod 17, the front end of which is reduced for insertion in a hole in the lower edge strip.

In applying the support to a poster, the poster is unrolled and placed in a horizontal P position with the edge strips up. The lower. end of the rod 13 is inserted in the hole in the lower edge strip, and the lower end of the rod 14: is inserted in the tube 15 and forced far enough into the same against the yielding action of the spring to permit the upper end of the rod .14. to clear the upper edge strip, after which the upper end of the rod 14: is inserted in the hole in the upperedge strip. The spring 16, acting through the rods 13and'14 against the strips 11 and 12, Finally, the front end of the rod 17 is inserted in the hole in thelower edge strip. The poster is V coiled compression spring housed within 13116 socket, and another rod which is adapted to seat atone end in said socketagainst the spring and'is adapted to engage at the other end with the other edge strip, said rods being readily detachable from the edge strips and'i'to being separable from each other to permit collapsing and compacting for shipment.

2. The combination with a flexible poster having centrally recessed strips permanently secured to the upper and lower edges thereof, .95 of means for spreading the strips apartcomprising, a rod which is adapted to seat at one end within the recess in one of the edge strips and is'provided at the other end with a socket, V a coiled compression spring housed within-Q the socket, and another rod which is adapted to seat at one end in the socket against the spring and is adapted to seat at the other end Within the recess in the other edge strip, said" rods being withdrawable from the recesses in 7 said edge strips, and said socket being sufliciently deepxto permit the other rod to be forced inwardly therein against the yielding resistance of the spring far enoughto allow one of the rods to be Withdrawn from its recess.

In witnessfwhereof have hereunto snb JOHN DIXQN scribed my name. 

